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Guest Post on The Pet Blog Lady and Radio Interviews

1 Comment / Animals, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

Fun things have been happening with my book, Something Furry Underfoot! Today, The Pet Blog Lady posted my guest post on her web site–she has 25K followers! My post is a fun, bubbly write-up that includes cute photos of some of the pets in my book. So check out this nifty guest post: http://www.petbloglady.com/2013/12/something-furry-underfoot-celebrating-all-kinds-of-pets.html. Also,

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This One’s for Pick Up That Poop

Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

About two weeks ago, I saw @Pickupthatpoop was not only following me on Twitter, they were reading my humorous, touching memoir about pets called Something Furry Underfoot. @Pickupthatpoop’s singular cause is to get people to pick up their dogs’ poop. And since they’re helping me out, I figured the least I could do is to write

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10 Things You Should Know Before You Get a Hamster, Mouse or Gerbil

11 Comments / Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

A lot of people get their kids hamsters, mice or gerbils as pets. And the thing is, most of these small fuzzies only live 1-3 years. Here’s 10 Things to Know to make those good years for your fuzzy pal: Most pet stores will send your small fuzzy home in a cardboard box. We live 7

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Happy National Cat Day – 10 Things You Should Know Before You Get a Cat

Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

Today is National Cat Day, so congratulations to all the happy kittens and cats out there and all the happy people who own cats!! In honor of National Cat Day I wanted to share some things I’ve learned about cats that may help other people before they run out and get a cat, or kitten, for

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The Eyes Have it – Photos of Two Adorable Puppies

Animals, Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

This is a photo I took of Winston, one of our five-month-old puppies. He melts my heart every time I look into his eyes. This is Snickers, our other five-month-old pup. When he posed next to the bay window, I snapped this photo. Again, it’s the eyes that get me every time! Thanks

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Book Blog Tour Schedule for Something Furry Underfoot

Animals, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

To get the word out about Something Furry Underfoot, I hired two marketeers, as I call them, which are people who market things like books. One marketeer is Jenkins Group, a book marketing company in my home state of Michigan. They got me set up with something called ReviewDirect which reaches something like 18,000 librarians, book stores,

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10 Things to Know Before You Get A Puppy

Animals, Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

It’s been almost a month now since Mark and I drove from Michigan to Pennsylvania to look at the puppy Mark fell for that we named Winston . . . . . . and also came home with a pal for Winston that we named Snickers. I’ve never had two puppies at one time. Here’s

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Winners of the Name the Puppies Contest!

1 Comment / Animals, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

Thank you for all the great name suggestions for our two puppies. The Name the Puppy Contest ended on September 6 and after intense debate, Mark and I selected the two winning names: Snickers and Winston. The winners of the contest are Janet Peterson, my cousin from Alabama, and Virginia Lydic, a.k.a. Stepkid #1 who

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Name the Puppies Contest!

16 Comments / Animals, Family, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

If you know Mark or read Something Furry Underfoot, you probably realize that when it comes to pets Mark is rather uncontrollable–he blinks and another new fuzzy shows up in my house. So, it probably won’t come as too much surprise that Mark went exactly three days without a dog in the house before he went online in

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Farewell to Dusty, the Angel Pup

4 Comments / Animals, Life, Pets / By Amy L Peterson

In my book Something Furry Underfoot are 50 tips, two of which are particularly relevant today. Tip #45: All pets die. Tip #46: It’s always hard when pets die. A little over 15 years ago, Mark came home from a pet store gushing about this little white frou-frou puppy that was scratching madly at the

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